Oman

I am so thankful that we had a short weekend getaway this past weekend. It was a very rough week before this one. Claire was very sick last week and we ended up in and out of the doctors for a week. It was so horrible I can't even write about it! Needless to say, we needed this vacation.
We had this vacation planned for awhile with our friends. Oman is only an hour flight from Dammam so it's an easy place to get to from here.
Oman was so beautiful. It has a very rocky terrain, which is much different than Saudi. It was also very hot!
We took the 9:00 Oman Air flight out and ended up getting to our hotel around 1 AM. We were all exhausted and fell right asleep. The next morning we got up and got started with an amazing buffet breakfast.

We got babysitters our first night and went out to a nice dinner downstairs at the resort. It was all you can eat seafood buffet and it did not disappoint!

Claire loved the breakfast buffet! This is her kind of eating!

Claire was not fond of the turtle that walked around every day!

 The kids club offered several activities for the kids. One of them was henna tattoos. Elise and Lauren were very excited!

We went to see "My Fair Lady" at the Muscat opera house. It was really fun to do something different!

Mr. Travis with the babies

We took a boat ride out to snorkel and Josh was able to scuba!

Hanging out on the lazy river!

With Claire being sick last week I forgot to post some Valentine pictures!

Our friends, Shelly and John had a kid party and watched all of the kids so we could go out to dinner.

Dance and Sports Day

I got to watch Savannah this week while

Heather had bus duty. The girls have a lot of fun playing together and telling each other 'no.'

I started teaching dance again and I have a huge turn out this semester! This kids did so well on their first day! 

The school had a sports day this week, which is similar to a field day back home. Elise's group needed to wear green and this was the only green shirt we had!! 

Sports day also fell on a half day. Heather and I treated the big girls to a lunch at The Steak House.

Claire could swing all day long!!

Santa Clause brought Elise a bike. Since we aren't allowed to mail bikes to Saudi, we went in to old Jubail and let her pick one out. She loves riding it around the compound.

We spent the weekend taking care of Claire! She got some nasty virus! Hoping for healthy kiddos this week!

Getting a little busier!

We were actually somewhat busy this week, which is a very good thing! If there's nothing to do here it's very easy to become a hermit in your house!

When the King died last weekend they made a decision to cancel school on Sunday. So, Sunday the girls got to play. We of course had a tea party!

Claire doesn't realize it yet...but this was the last graham cracker she will eat until June!! 😓

Claire is so proud of her backpack!

Elise came home from school with a high fever. She rested all afternoon and was completely fine by morning. I was so thankful it was just a 24 hour bug!

We were invited to a coffee tasting at Starbucks! Yes...not a wine tasting, but a coffee tasting! It actually turned out to be a lot of fun!! We got some good laughs and learned a little bit more about coffee. I also had to take a tylenol PM to go to sleep this night. 

Because all the restaurants are separated families and men only. We had to have the presentation right by a place kind of like Chuck E Cheese. That's why you see all of the balloons and such. 

So happy it was warm enough for the girls to wear their school t shirt dresses. I had them made over Christmas and love how they turned out!

This morning Claire had two eggs and two pop tarts. I had to take a picture to remember how much food she ate!

We went to Bahrain just for the day to get out of the Kingdom.  Mr. Alex loves Claire!

So happy for a place that has wine and tv for the kids!